The study also found that 77 percent (81 percent of nonsmokers and 74 percent of smokers) would support lowering the amount of nicotine in cigarettes to nonaddictive levels if doing so would reduce the number of children who became addicted to cigarettes.

A ban on cigarettes was supported by 43 percent of the respondents, including 55 percent of nonsmokers and 33 percent of smokers, according to study author Gregory Connolly, director of the Center for Global Tobacco Control at the Harvard School of Public Health, and colleagues.

The study was published online Feb. 16 in the American Journal of Public Health.

Cigarettes contribute to the premature deaths of more than 400,000 people in the United States each year, and more than 3,800 youths begin smoking every day, according to a Harvard news release.

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